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Synopsis

This unit provides an understanding of the business value of customer relationship management and how data mining technology can be used to improve organisational interaction with customers. Building a business around the customer relationship is the aspiration of many modern organisations. Customer relationship management and data mining has been combined together to provide the required concepts, techniques, technology and tools to achieve this goal. The unit discuss how IT and IT based techniques can be used for customer segmentation, clustering and classification, market basket analysis and association rule mining in addition to traditional CRM.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

use software tools and techniques for identifying business opportunities;